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403 CI Oldsmobile engine has been highly modified with high performance parts from Mondello Performance

Dual 4-barrel Holley carburetors

Headers

Stainless steel Bullet mufflers

Electric fuel pump

Turbo 350 automatic transmission with manual valve body

B&M shifter

Leather and Tweed interior

Dual 4-barrel carburetors

Factory tinted T-Tops

Corvette independent suspension

Coilover rear shocks

Tubular control arms

Aluminum fuel cell

Disc brakes with remotely mounted master cylinder

Weld wheels and BF Goodrich tires

Auto Meter gauges

Roll bar

Suicide doors with shaved door handles and remote door openers

Custom airbrushed Eagle mural by Glen designs in New Jersey

Custom etched glass

Garage kept and trailered

World of Wheels award winner

Featured in Pontiac magazines

403 CI Oldsmobile engine has been highly modified with high performance parts from Mondello Performance

Dual 4-barrel Holley carburetors

Headers

Stainless steel Bullet mufflers

Electric fuel pump

Turbo 350 automatic transmission with manual valve body

B&M shifter

Leather and Tweed interior

Dual 4-barrel carburetors

Factory tinted T-Tops

Corvette independent suspension

Coilover rear shocks

Tubular control arms

Aluminum fuel cell

Disc brakes with remotely mounted master cylinder

Weld wheels and BF Goodrich tires

Auto Meter gauges

Roll bar

Suicide doors with shaved door handles and remote door openers

Custom airbrushed Eagle mural by Glen designs in New Jersey

Custom etched glass

Garage kept and trailered

Historically, General Motors has been known to engage in some rather bizarre engine-installation practices when it comes to certain production cars and trucks. For example, Chevrolet’s fabled 409 CI “W-Series” high-performance V-8 was originally a truck engine. Conversely, certain models of mid-‘60s GMC trucks were known to have Pontiac V-8 engines installed in them. In the late 1970’s, history repeated itself when GM installed Oldsmobile 403 CI V-8 engines in Pontiac’s 1979 Trans Am. The year 1979 was a peak for sales with 116,535 Pontiac Trans Ams being sold. This Black, 1979 Pontiac Trans Am Firebird street machine is an International Show Car Association (ISCA) World of Wheels champion and has been garage-kept since day one. Features include a highly chromed and detailed, Joe Mondello-equipped 403 CI Oldsmobile tunnel ram V-8, which sports twin Holley carburetors, stainless-steel headers and Bullet stainless-steel exhaust. Backing it up is a manual-valve body, Turbo Hydra-Matic transmission with a B&M shifter. The suspension on this Trans Am has likewise been upgraded with tubular control arms and coilover shocks along with 4-wheel disc brakes. Wheels and tires consist of Weld Racing hydro-formed two-piece modular wheels wrapped with BF Goodrich Radial T/A high-performance rubber. Also along for the ride is a Fuel Safe aluminum-cased fuel cell. Inside, this T-Top features burgundy-leather and tweed upholstery, Auto Meter instrumentation, an aftermarket AM/FM/CD radio, a roll bar and etched window glass. Exterior treatments consist of suicide doors with shaved door handles activated by remote power door locks. Also featured is a Glen Designs air-brushed eagle mural. It’s no wonder why this black beauty is an ISCA World of Wheels award winner.

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